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Patterns in property specifications for finite-state verification

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Matthew B. Dwyer,

George S. Avrunin,

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ICSE '99: Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering

Pages 411 - 420

https://doi.org/10.1145/302405.302672

Published: 16 May 1999 Publication History

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